Ms. Pearl's Journey to Living Frugally

A journey to recapture freedom through simplicity and discarding debt.

About Me

Ms. Pearl

I am a married mom of 2 who is trying to get control of her finances! My husband and I have good jobs along with a big mortgage. We are also loaded down with credit card debt that we are slowly but surely getting rid of. I am hoping this blog will keep me on track!

We have 3 credit cards:
Chase
Bank of America
Capitol One
and a HEL
AND of course a mortgage

Free Stamp

January 15th, 2009 at 02:04 am

I was second in line at the post office a few days ago behind a man with four large boxes asking too many questions. There were at least four people behind me. There are two windows in this post office but the one was "closed."

Before long, an older man appeared in the "closed" window and asked if anyone just needed to "pick something up." I said "I just need one stamp." He said "Ok."

I walked to the window and withdrew a five dollar bill from my purse. Upon seeing the five the man asked me "Is that all you have?" I said "Yea, I'm sorry." He said "Don't worry about it, I'll take care of the stamp." I thanked him over and over and walked out of the post office with a smile on my face! I have never had a free stamp before!

I've been having to go to the post office more lately, and I've been pretty satisfied with the service. The odd thing I learned was that the workers have to buy and bring their own pens to work! It's kind of sad that the post office can't purchase pens for people to use!